FURIA win every pistol in close 1-2 loss
The Thunderpick World Championship 2023 Europe Series 1 kicked off this evening, with FURIA taking on the Bulgarians from 500 in the round-of-16. FURIA, looking to avenge their poor opening performance at Cologne, had a lot to make up for in this game that they were comfortably favored in.
Starting off on 500's pick of Ancient, it was a map that FURIA were also somewhat capable on, but for 500 it was one of their best. FURIA and 500 went back and forth on the Brazilian's CT-side, but it was Yuri "yuurih" Boian that would really power his team in this game as he would help lead them to a strong 7-8 CT half, and a dominant 9-2 T-side that would secure the map 16-10.
With FURIA taking the advantage onto Inferno, it seemed like the new-look squad would take home a comfortable 2-0 win. This would not be the case as FURIA's T-side looked ineffective against the Bulgarians. Despite winning both pistol, FURIA was unable to string more than two rounds together the entire map as they fell 5-10 on their T-side and then 3-6 on their CT-side to lose their own map pick 16-8.
On the final map of Mirage, FURIA once again saw themselves go down early as their T-side looked weaker than 500's defenses. Despite once again winning each pistol - a perfect 6 for 6 on the match - the team found themselves down 9-6 heading into their CT-side. The Brazilians would show their resolve by tying it up thanks to some close retakes. However, it wouldn't be enough as 500 found space and closed out the match 16-10.
FURIA500| FURIA |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato |
52 - 45 | +7 | 82.8 | 75.0% | 1.16 |
| Yuri 'yuurih' Santos |
49 - 52 | -3 | 82.4 | 68.4% | 1.04 |
| Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes |
49 - 51 | -2 | 64.9 | 71.1% | 1.03 |
| Andrei 'arT' Piovezan |
43 - 57 | -14 | 68.1 | 61.8% | 0.90 |
| Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo |
47 - 49 | -2 | 55.7 | 65.8% | 0.88 |
| 500 |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Kalin 'KalubeR' Erenditsov |
65 - 51 | +14 | 96.1 | 72.4% | 1.26 |
| Hristiyan 'REDSTAR' Pironkov |
63 - 47 | +16 | 81.7 | 68.4% | 1.24 |
| Denislav 'dennyslaw' Dimitrov |
55 - 45 | +10 | 72.9 | 73.7% | 1.17 |
| Ivan 'Patrick' Ivanov |
33 - 49 | -16 | 53.6 | 64.5% | 0.78 |
| Nikolay 'niki1' Pantaleev |
33 - 49 | -16 | 55.5 | 59.2% | 0.75 |
FURIA has been eliminated from the competition and will next play in Gamers8.
